Mal País

Hola mis amores,

Sorry I didn´t write yesterday, there wasn´t too much to write! The only thing I can report from yesterday is that it was the first day of my second week here at the school. Old students left and new students arrived. Also, Michelle´s replacement, Matias, arrived and is learning her job this week as she leaves this Saturday. He seems really nice. He studied for a year in Spain and now he´s coming from spending 3 months in México so he´s Spanish is super! I´m jealous... It´s ok though, my Spanish is coming along just fine!

There are 4 new students and one of them is in my level. Her name is Kim and she´s from Chicago. Her and I are in class together with another fellow John. He is the second person here that´s kind of getting on my nerves a little. He was in my class last week too which doesn´t make it any better. He makes it a point to try to correct me when I make mistakes which, I appreciate the gesture, but I´d appreciate it much more if he wasn´t wrong 75% of the time he corrects me... It´s cute though because Silvia, our teacher this week, keeps giving Kim and I the ¨I´m so sorry for this¨ look, which is precious. Also, he keeps on trying to explain to me the tenses in English terms like ¨present perfect¨ and ¨past perfect¨ or whatever which are terms I do not know as I never learned them properly between Israel and the States... It´s ok though, learning tenses in Spanish help me learn tenses in English! :)

Another thing to report (which I can´t remember if I mentioned or not) is that my friend from high school, Jensine, is also here in CR!! We are hoping to meet up this weekend. She will be in Mal País which is in the Nicoya peninsula. I´m hoping to take a bus and meet her there and stay at the hostel she´ll be at on Saturday night, and then return to Sto. Domingo on Sunday afternoon. It should be a lot of fun as I have yet to visit the beach here and I´ve seen pictures of Mal País and it should be gorgeous!

Anyways, that´s all for today!

Muchos besos y mucho amor!

Meirav